Defining the “R” in Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

Skylar Talley

Product Manager

Skylar joined AlienVault in January of 2017 as the Product Manager for USM Appliance and OSSIM. Before AlienVault, Skylar worked at Austin startups SpareFoot and Waldo Photos. Since joining the product team at AlienVault, Skylar has been focused on coming up to speed on AlienVault's diverse user base and all of the different ways that the USM Appliance product helps organizations address their security needs.

This spring, as the product and security operations teams at AT&T Cybersecurity prepared for the launch of our Managed Threat Detection and Response service, it became obvious to us that the market has many different understandings of what “response” could (and should) mean when evaluating an MDR solution. Customers typically want to know: What incident response…

We have an audacious goal on the USM Central Product team. We believe that we can create the most phenomenal security platform for MSPs and MSSPs on the market with the combination of USM Central, USM Anywhere, and USM Appliance. As we move into Q3, we wanted to take some time to stop and reflect a bit on our journey.…

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The AlienVault team has been hard at work over the past few months on our latest version of USM Appliance, v5.4, focused on streamlining your threat detection, response, and compliance capabilities, while improving reporting in USM Appliance. Take a look at the new features below, check out the release notes for more details, update your systems, and let us know…